Sleep
7 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
A Symbol of Death
- Job 14:12 so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
- Matthew 9:24 “Go away,” He told them. “The girl is not dead, but asleep.” And they laughed at Him.
- Mark 5:39 He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but asleep.”
- Luke 8:52 Meanwhile, everyone was weeping and mourning for her. But Jesus said, “Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”
- John 11:11–12 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.” …
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
from God
- Psalm 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat — for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Related topics
Sleep of JesusSleep of the Sluggard (Very Lazy Person)
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.